User Support -> Setting up Your Connection

Configuring Windows Vista

Note!! You need to have 4 items ready to make this quick set-up procedure work. If you do not have the 4 items ready, or you need to check the settings, the latter half of these instructions will show you. The 4 items you need are:

1. Username (the full email address)
2. Password
3. Phone number to dial
4. Modem plugged into the phone line.

Click on the round Windows "Start" button in the lower left corner of your screen (see Figure 1),

figure 1

Click Control Panel. Your Control Panel screen will look like figure 2 if you are in "Default M, or figure 3 if you are in "Classic Mode".

figure 2 - Control Panel (Default Mode)

IF YOU ARE IN DEFAULT MODE: Click Network and Internet. See Figure 2 You will see another Control Panel Screen. See Figure 4.

figure 3 - Control Panel (Classic Mode)

IF YOU ARE IN CLASSIC MODE: Click Internet Options. See Figure 3

figure 4 - Network and Internet Control Panel

Click 'Internet Options'.

figure 5 - Internet Options Connections Tab

Click on the Connections tab. Click the ADD button on the right. See Figure 5.

figure 6

In "How do you want to connect?" click Dial-up. See Figure 6.

figure 7 - configuring the dial-up connection

In the "Type the information from your Internet Service Provider (ISP)", (see figure 7) Type in:

1. The phone number 7136259909 (main Houston number).
2. The HAL-PC/HALNet Username (the full Email address is used)
3. The HAL-PC/HALNet Password
4. The connection name: HALNet (erase "Dial-up Connection" and type in HALNet)

If wanted, a check can be put in "Remember this password".

Click CONNECT.

figure 8 - Testing the dial-up connection

The Dial-up Connection will now be tested. See Figure 8.

figure 9 - Success!

If the connection is successful, click Close. (If you wish to now open Internet Explorer, you may click "Browse the Internet now"). See Figure 9.

NOTE: If the connection was NOT successful, click "Set up the Connection anyway", and then click CLOSE to "The Connection to the Internet is ready to use" screen. You will have a chance to re-examine the settings later in this procedure under the next NOTE section.

figure 10 - Selecting the network location

"Select a location for the 'HALNet' network" will be shown. You are to be the judge of how the connection is to be used. If it is used in a home environment, click HOME.

Windows Vista may ask for permission to make the connection with a dialog box displaying, "Windows needs your permission to continue". If so, click "Continue".

figure 11

The screen "Successfully set network settings" should appear. Click Close. See Figure 11

If you successfully connected, you are finished with the "quick" Dial-up procedure. Click OK to the Internet Options screens. (Continue clicking OK until you close all the dialog boxes). This should take you back to the Control Panel or Network and Internet screen. Close these screens by clicking the X on the top right. If the connection failed, see NOTE.

You should now be able to double-click your web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) and connect to HAL-PC (HALNet).

For setting up your Email see: http://www.hal-pc.org/support/ and click on the Email program you are using to see screenshots of how it should be configured.
The mail server is a POP3 (type) server.
The Incoming server is named: pop.hal-pc.org
The Outgoing (SMTP) server is named: smtp.hal-pc.org
The news server is named: news.hal-pc.org

Finished.